1. Secure: Take control and safeguard all important
installations, records, administrative facilities, etc.
2. Restore: Reactivate critical systems, such as law
enforcement, power, water and sanitation, food distribution, judicial functions.
3. Administer: Perform all the governmental functions necessary to provide critical services.
4. Reconstitute: Locate, vet, and negotiate with
Host Nation (HN) government personnel to bring
them back into the workforce, and, if necessary, bring
in new hires to staff critical functions.
5. Train, Mentor, and Advise: Train local personnel
so that they are better able to perform their jobs. Mentor them in order for them to become more confident
and competent in their tasks. As more responsibility is
transferred to local officials, advise them in performing their tasks.
6. Disengage: As local authorities become more capable of effectively executing the tasks of governance,
US personnel progressively transfer all responsibility
to the local authorities, disengage, and redeploy.
The Need for Generic Mission Analysis:
What Does It Take to Run a Country?
Perhaps the most logical way to determine the
proper qualifications for 38Gs would be to analyze the
sorts of missions they would be called on to perform,
and then determine the qualifications needed to do
the tasks associated with the missions.
The basic governance mission is to be able to restore and administer all essential governmental services at the local, district, provincial and national lev-
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